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Reaction-diffusion waves in multiple spatial dimensions advance at a rate that strongly depends on the curvature of the wave fronts. These waves have important applications in many physical, ecological, and biological systems. In this work,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-12-28 Pascal R. Buenzli , Matthew J. Simpson

We prove the existence of a continuous family of positive and generally non-monotone travelling fronts in delayed reaction-diffusion equations $u_t(t,x) = \Delta u(t,x)- u(t,x) + g(u(t-h,x)) (*)$, when $g \in C^2(R_+,R_+)$ has exactly two…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-03-04 Teresa Faria , Sergei Trofimchuk

For the one-dimensional case, we establish the long-time asymptotics of solution to Cauchy problem and prove existence of modified wave operators. In particular, we show that the part of the wave travels ballistically if the potential is…

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The aim of this paper is first to review the derivation of a model describing the propagation of an optical wave in a photorefractive medium and to present various mathematical results on this model: Cauchy problem, solitary waves.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-12-03 Brigitte Bidégaray-Fesquet , Jean-Claude Saut

This article produces wave equations and constructs traveling wave solutions that are intimately related to Newton's equations of celestial mechanics. The traveling wave solutions are expressed in ``closed form'' in terms of elementary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Harry Gingold , Jocelyn Quaintance

The one-dimensional propagation of seismic waves with constant Q is shown to be governed by an evolution equation of fractional order in time, which interpolates the heat equation and the wave equation. The fundamental solutions for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-08-10 Francesco Mainardi , Massimo Tomirotti

We study two systems of reaction diffusion equations with monostable or bistable type of nonlinearity and with free boundaries. These systems are used as multi-species competitive model. For two-species models, we prove the existence of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Jian Yang , Bendong Lou

We consider a nonlocal reaction-diffusion equation as a model for a population structured by a space variable and a phenotypical trait. To sustain the possibility of invasion in the case where an underlying principal eigenvalue is negative,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Matthieu Alfaro , Jérôme Coville , Gaël Raoul

We prove the existence and uniqueness, up to a shift in time, of curved traveling fronts for a reaction-advection-diffusion equation with a combustion-type nonlinearity. The advection is through a shear flow $q$. This analyzes, for…

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Standard diffusion equation is based on Brownian motion of the dispersing species without considering persistence in the movement of the individuals. This description allows for the instantaneous spreading of the transported species over an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-07-13 Pushpita Ghosh , Deb Shankar Ray

In this paper we study the isolated periodic traveling wave solutions of a family of reaction-convection-diffusion equations with cubic reaction term. Existence/nonexistence of periodic traveling wave solutions are discussed in different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Krishna Patra , Ch. Srinivasa Rao

In this work we investigate the existence of non-monotone traveling wave solutions to a reaction-diffusion system modeling social outbursts, such as rioting activity, originally proposed in arXiv:1502.04725v3. The model consists of two…

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We describe traveling waves in a basic model for three-dimensional water-wave dynamics in the weakly nonlinear long-wave regime. Small solutions that are periodic in the direction of translation (or orthogonal to it) form an…

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The paper concerns front propagation for the following mono-stable reaction-diffusion-advection equation \[f(u)u_x + g(u)u_\tau = [d(u)|u_x|^{p-2} u_x]_x+ \rho(u), \quad (x,\tau)\in \R\times [0,+\infty).\] Besides existence and…

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In this paper, we focus on the existence of propagation fronts, solutions to non-local dispersion reaction models. Our aim is to provide a unified proof of this existence in a very broad framework using simple real analysis tools. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Emeric Bouin , Jérôme Coville

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation in narrow random channels. We approximate the generalized solution to this equation by the corresponding one on a random graph. By making use of large deviation analysis we study the asymptotic wave…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-15 Mark Freidlin , Wenqing Hu

Travelling wave solutions of reaction-diffusion equations are widely used to model the spatial spread of populations and other phenomena in biology and physics. In this article, we reinterpret the classical variational principle approach…

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We consider an evolution equation with the regularized fractional derivative of an order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ with respect to the time variable, and a uniformly elliptic operator with variable coefficients acting in the spatial variables.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Samuil D. Eidelman , Anatoly N. Kochubei